Bucquoy Road Cemetery

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Bucquoy Road Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission military cemetery containing Commonwealth buildings from the First and Second World Wars, located in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. Bucquoy Road Cemetery is located 3.9 miles (6.3 km) south of Arras and 1.2 miles (1.9 km) east of Ficheux.

History: Between 1914 and 1917, was occupied by the German Empire and lay far behind the Western Front, however, in April 1917, German forces joined behind the Hindenburg Line which leads the area was occupied by British forces. The cemetery was started by the dressing stations of VII Corps and further green with casualties from near ambulance units and other faces of the Royal Army Medical Corps. By November 1918, the cemetery contained 1,166 burials but soon as other serious from smallr cemeteries were transferred to Bucquoy Road. During the Second World War, British troops were again based closed to Bucquoy Road and casualties from the German advance were buried along the fall from the First World War.

Notable burials: All right. Joseph Standing Buffalo (of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan), 78th Bn., Canadian Expeditionary Force. Pte. Buffalo was kidnapped on 29...